---
title: "Assign Skills to Candidate"
slug: "assign-skills-to-candidate"
description: "Specify which skills a candidate has to enable further candidate search by skill. "
tags: ["Local HR", "HR"]
updated: 2024-05-16T07:59:52Z
published: 2024-05-16T07:59:52Z
canonical: "help.lanteria.com/assign-skills-to-candidate"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.lanteria.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Assign Skills to Candidate

Follow these steps to assign skills to a candidate:

1. Go to **Recruiting** > **Candidates**.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/image-1673764556231.png)
2. Find the candidate and click his/her name to open the candidate's card.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/image-1673764777258.png)
3. Click **Skills** on the **Details** tab to open the list of skills and attributes.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/image-1673764944753.png)
4. Click the **Add/Edit** button.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/image-1673765170145.png)
5. Select the check boxes next to the necessary skills and attributes that you want to assign to the candidate or clear the check box to unassign the skill or attribute.  
*Note* *Availability of skills for assigning depends on the configuration of* [*person attributes*](/v1/docs/person-attributes) *(skills) and* [*person attribute categories*](/v1/docs/person-attribute-categories) *(skill groups) in the Core HR settings.*
6. Click **Save**.

This allows [searching](/v1/docs/candidate-search) for a candidate for a particular job opening by skills and attributes.

## Related

- [Person Attribute Categories](/person-attribute-categories.md)
- [Person Attributes](/person-attributes.md)